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Congrats to the Class of 2025 Library Student Employees!
Posted April 30, 2025
As the academic year comes to an end, we’d like to recognize and celebrate our graduating student employees.
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Blind date with a book
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With February officially behind us, we say good-bye to that infamous holiday of love--Valentine's Day. This year the Libraries celebrated Valentine's Day with an event universally known (among libraries anyway) as Blind Date with a Book.
Once a Student, Now an Intern: Examining the History of African-American Spirituals
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A broadside for the performance of a traveling minstrel show, advertising "an evening of singing, dancing, music, and jokes," caught the attention of a student in the Special Collections Reading Room this past week.
Getting to know library student assistants: Alexia Kaelber
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W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. As a library student employee myself -- I am a Mosaic Diversity intern working in Swem Library's External Relations Office -- I decided to get to know miy fellow student assistants.
A Work in Progress: February Catalog Updates
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The catalog update launched just over a month ago, and we would like to share some new updates and information on feedback you have sent us.
Getting to know our library student assistants
Posted
W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. As a library student employee myself -- I am a Mosaic Diversity intern working in Swem Library's External Relations Office -- I decided to get to know miy fellow student assistants.
Arthur Lee Philanthropos "Address to Virginia General Assembly"
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At the close of the eighteenth century, a series of revolutions broke out throughout the Atlantic World.
Why I love working at Swem
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The best part of working at the library is certainly the patrons and the people I work with.
January's Digitized-Collection-of-the-Month: Office of the Bursar Records
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Great News! The Office of the Bursar Records have been digitized and are available for researching, right from your computer.
"I seek only equality…"
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From 1927-1947, Dr. Grace Warren Landrum served the William & Mary community as both Dean of Women and Professor of English. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Landrum completed her doctorate at Radcliffe College with a dissertation on Chaucer.
What's New in the Collections: Heritage Humane Society Scrapbooks
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The holiday season is a season for gift giving for many.
Celebrating the Festival of Lights: New Donation
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As the holiday season begins, we thought it appropriate to highlight a recent addition to our collection that coincides with the festivities of the season.
Sustainable Collections: Spending Trends with Big Deal Publishers
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The collections budget of the university libraries is subject to enormous inflationary pressures for scholarly content. This issue is of supreme importance to universities around the globe, with libraries in many countries working on strategies to provide greater access to information without monopolizing their entire budgets on a small number of for-profit journal publishers. This year, we have worked with other universities in the state to analyze our own journal subscriptions, particularly those subscriptions which we have with the top academic publishers in the world.
Recently Processed: Helen Rodgers Weber Letters
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A good romantic love story has universal appeal.
Hip Hop in the SCRC
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William & Mary's Hip-Hop Collections features two unopened CD cases of "Urban Legend" by Richmond MC, JayQuan.
Who's Susie?
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As an archival processor in Swem's Special Collections Research Center, Mariaelena DiBenigno, PhD candidate, has been reading a lot about World War II.
I Belong
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For four days, Tijeras Avenue and 2nd Street in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico was immersed with people who worked in libraries, and most were people of color.
Student Voices: Keyyatta Bonds
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My name is Keyyatta Bonds, and I am part of the second cohort of the William & Mary Libraries Mosaic Program. I am Sophomore at the College, planning to major in International Relations (even though taking more ECON classes is not what I envisioned for my future).
Women in World War I: Preserving Humanity in History
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On December 25, 1918, Edith Neele Gibbons, of Cleveland, Ohio, was aboard the S. S. Coronia en route to London.
The Resurrection of Frankenstein
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This year is the 200th anniversary of the release of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
Open Access & Open Education Resources (OER)
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October 21 is the start of Open Access Week, that time every year when we salute all things open access. This year, W&M Libraries is focusing on Open Education Resources (OER), which are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.